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Little Mosque on the Prairie, Season One

The Season One release of CBC's hit comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie has some nice, if short, featurettes. It also has a couple of commentary tracks on the pilot that unfortunately suffer from a sound balance problem. The sound from the actual show is set at the same level as that of the speakers, making it difficult to hear what they have to say. The first track is by creator Zarqa Nawaz and producer Mary Darling who discuss, I think, how Nawaz was inspired by her own life to pitch the show and how she sees it as a kind of All in the Family type comedy. The second track has the same two women, the director and a couple of the actors all talking at the same time, which makes it even trickier to hear, but we do learn that actor Carlo Rota lost some 40 pounds during the shoot of the episode, making for difficult continuity.

"Behind the Mosque" is 13 minutes of the actors and producers talking about the joy of working on the show. Colin Brunton notes that "This is true of every Canadian producer: it's so gratifying to work on something that people are actually watching."

There are two seven-minute segments from The Hour featuring stars Zaib Shaikh and Sitara Hewitt, five minutes of promos, an "informal chat" about the writers and a very cute seven minutes called "Behind the Veil," about the wardrobe choices for Hewitt's character. Her rack of scarves is very impressive.

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